Stranger than Fiction
March 12, 2007
At some point in their careers many comedians want to be taken seriously. Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler have all tried their hand at more dramatic fare with varying degrees of success. Lately, Will Ferrell has been making inroads at more...
The Three Stooges: Hapless Half-Wits
March 5, 2007
Hapless Half-Wits is Sony’s fourth volume of newly remastered Three Stooges short films with the option of viewing each one in its original black and white form or in a colourized version (although, any Stooges purist would scoff at this second option)....
Friends with Money
February 27, 2007
Nicole Holofcener writes some of the best, most realistic dialogue for women (and men) and how they interact with one another. This was evident with her strong debut film Walking and Talking (1996) and her work on the small screen with the episodes of...
Anything But Love: Volume 1
February 24, 2007
The problem inherent in any television show that revolves around the sexual tension between its two romantic leads is how do you keep the audience interested after the thrill of the chase is gone? Once the anticipation of the potential couple hooking...
Trust the Man
February 7, 2007
Trust the Man (2006) is a romantic comedy set in New York City so we’re on familiar ground. We knew what to expect because we’ve seen so many of these kinds of movies: white, affluent New Yorkers with relationship problems. Which means that this film...
Running with Scissors
February 2, 2007
Running with Scissors (2006) is the latest entry in the dysfunctional, eccentric family genre alongside the likes of recent additions, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Family Stone (2005). It’s a genre that allows actors to grunge themselves down,...
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
January 29, 2007
Originally inspired by the American western and the crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) would go on to inspire countless other films, most notably the Sergio Leone spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Walter...
Bandidas
January 17, 2007
Considering the two movie stars that headline this project, it is somewhat surprising that 20th Century Fox decided to quietly release Bandidas (2006) straight to video in North America. While Salma Hayek is not the box office draw she once was, her co-star...
Idiocracy
January 4, 2007
If director Mike Judge didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck at all. When he made his feature film debut with Office Space (1999), a hilarious comedy about the drudgery of 9-to-5 office culture, 20th Century Fox (who bankrolled the film)...
Little Miss Sunshine
December 20, 2006
This star-studded independent film (isn’t that an oxymoron?) was the toast of this year’s Sundance Film Festival with its distribution rights being bought for $10 million – one of the biggest deals ever made in the festival’s history. The film...
